Notes

Alcus F. Huff

Alcus F. Huff, 95, a true son of the Confederacy, died Feb. 19,
2005, at Franklin County Nursing Home in Meadville.

Mr. Huff, born July 15, 1909, was a resident of the Homochitto
community of Amite County. He was the son of John Fletcher Huff,
the last Civil War veteran to die in Amite County, and Effie
Jane Foreman Huff.

Visitation is 5 to 9 tonight at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster
and continues Monday at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
from 10 a.m. until services there at 11 a.m. The Rev. Mark
Lambert and the Rev. Max Foreman will officiate. Burial will be
in Mount Vernon Cemetery.

Mr. Huff was a farmer and worked as a sawfiler for Crosby Lumber
and Manufacturing Company for 33 years. He worked as a game
warden for the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission for 10
years.

He was a member of Mount Vernon United Methodist Church.

His family said he will be missed and cited Timothy II 4:7-8: “I
have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept
the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that
love his appearing.”

In April 1995, Mr. Huff, along with his brothers, Howell and
Emmitt Jewell, now deceased, were honored by the Sons of the
Confederacy. They received medals, flags and a 21-gun salute at
the Amite County Confederate Memorial site in Liberty.

Their father joined the Confederate Army at age 15 and survived
the Civil War. He died at age 93 when a tree fell on him while
he was fishing in Amite County.

Mr. Huff was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife,
Mozel Seale Huff; a son, Darrell Huff; a stepdaughter, Linda
Etheridge Jenkins; two sisters, Carrie H. Dunn and Callie H.
Gardner; and his brothers, Howell and Emmitt Jewell.

Notes

"Constantine Perkins was married three times: the first marriage
in 1716 to Ann Pollard (d. 1760); the second marriage on 31 May
1761 to Mrs. Mary Allen; the third marriage in 1763 to Ann
Walker." Francis Benning, His Descendants and Allied Families,
by Eva Hardin Benning, 1981, Kansas City, MO, p. 135."

Notes

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans: Volume X:

"STODDERT, Benjamin, cabinet officer, was born in Charles
county, Md., in 1751; son of Capt. Thomas Stoddert, an officer
in the French and Indian war, who was killed at Braddock's
defeat; and grandson of Maj. James Stoddert, who emigrated from
Scotland about 1675, and settled in Maryland. Benjamin entered
the mercantile business, but in 1776 he joined the patriot army,
as captain of cavalry, and attained the rank of major. He took
part in the battle of Brandywine, where he was severely wounded,
and unfitted for active service; but was appointed secretary of
the board of war, serving till 1781. He removed to Georgetown,
D.C.; was the first secretary of the U.S. navy in Washington's
cabinet, 1798-1801, and served as acting secretary of war, on
the resignation of James McHenry, May, 1800, till June, 1800,
when Henry Dexter accepted the portfolio. He was instrumental in
the increase of the American naval force from three frigates to
five frigates and to twenty-three sloops of war. He died in
Bladensburg, Md., Dec. 18, 1813.